History alone is enough reason to make the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains a national monument, speakers at Redfish Lodge said Saturday. Cecil Andrus’ fight to stop a molybdenum mine at Castle Peak in 1970 got him elected governor and changed conservation…
Sometimes moments come together that mark the advances we’ve made in government, in attitudes and in our advancement as a state and a people. Often they take place in government, such as when Idaho Gov. Phil Batt signed legislation to…
Idacorp CEO LaMont Keen told stockholders Thursday its subsidiary Idaho Power will continue to rely on coal plants in Wyoming and Nevada at least for now. Keen told the 10 stockholders who attended the annual meeting that it will revisit…
The Sierra Club will be demonstrating Thursday outside of the Idacorp, Inc. annual shareholders meet on the sidewalk in front of Idaho Power headquarters in Boise. The group urged marchers to be respectful of Idaho Power’s private property and people…
The Obama administration has dropped its appeal of a federal judge’s decision to negate the listing of slickspot peppergrass as a threatened species. Chief U.S. Magistrate Candy Dale refused in December to reconsider her ruling the previous August that the…
Biologists at Boise State University say birds thought to tolerate humans, like American kestrels, may not be so laid back around us. Erin H. Strasser and Julie A. Heath of Boise State University laid out their case in a study…
The long-billed curlew is the nation’s largest shorebird but its fate may lie in the grasslands of southern Idaho and the Great Basin. See more photos Video here Researchers from the Idaho Bird Observatory at Boise State University are trying…
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said the Obama administration will work collaboratively to evaluate the Boulder-White Clouds area as a possible national monument. Vilsack compared the process to the one that was used for Chimney Rock National Monument, established in September…
The Ag and Interior secretaries vowed they would meet the challenge of tinderbox conditions to fight fires across the West despite deep budget cuts this summer. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warned that to meet the demands of firefighting the…
The U.S. Forest Service will temporarily close a section of forest road 579 from May 14 through June 6, or until the road surface has dried. The road is the main route into Bear Valley and the Middle Fork of…
